Technion’s breakthroughs

A pill-sized camera , used around the world, was developed by a Technion graduate (at Given Imaging Ltd) and is used as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for the digestive system.

A miniature robot for fail-proof spinal surgery, which was developed at Technion, has received FDA approval .

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion’s Faculty of Materials Engineering received universal acclaim for his discovery of Quasiperiodic Crystals – a new class of materials.

Prof. Moussa Youdim and John Finberg of the Faculty of Medicine together with Teva Pharmaceuticals developed Rasagiline – a new anti-Parkinson’s disease drug.

A revolutionary gene therapy approach is being developed by Dr. Marcelle Machluf of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering via ultrasound waves. The system uses non-invasive cell engineering to bring painless treatments to victims of cancer and diabetes.

Technion is one of a handful of universities around the world supporting a student program to design, build and launch its own satellite. (The Gurwin TechSat II microsatellite has been successfully in orbit since July 1998).

The Lempel / Ziv Algorithm , developed by Professors Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv has become an international standard for data compression, and a prestigious milestone of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Technion was one of only at research universities in the world authorized to receive US federal research funds for stem cell research.